Corning man faces child sex charges

A Corning man is behind bars after allegedly driving to northern New Jersey hoping to have sex with two children.

Jeffery Smith

A Corning man is behind bars after allegedly driving to northern New Jersey hoping to have sex with two children.

Jeffrey E. Fielding, 46, of 52 E. Third St., Apt. 1, was arrested Saturday after driving from his home to a location in New Jersey's Bergen County to meet up with a 6-year-old girl and an 8-year-old boy.

Joseph Macellaro, acting chief of detectives for the Bergen County Prosecutor's Office, said Fielding was arraigned Tuesday before Judge Patrick Roma. He is being held on $200,000 cash bail.

Fielding, a computer repair technician at Staples, had recently struck up an online conversation in a chat room with an undercover detective whom he thought was the guardian of the two children.

Macellaro said he asked to have sex with the children.

Authorities said the case is rare because computer detectives ordinarily don't come across men who try to arrange sex with underage children through an adult intermediary.

Fielding is charged with two counts each of attempted aggravated sexual assault and attempted endangering the welfare of a child.

The investigation was conducted by members of the Bergen County Prosecutor's Office Computer Crimes Unit.